Ok so this page is about a lot of things, "THE DEAD LUST" project of course...but also about me, my personal story of getting this movie from my brain to where it is now...

I began writing the script for my first feature film in 2003... just after the release of my first three short films, "Them Damn Zombies" in 2001..."Zombie Dawn" in 2002...and my infamous black and white creeper "Clearwater" in 2003...(which became "Clearwater: Abduction") ...in 2004..."Ekimmu" came into my mind...a story told with drama, horror, dark humor...raw grit and some hot chicks... I wanted to make a film that I dreamed up myself...something new...so I wrote the script for "Ekimmu"...

I changed the title to "Ekimmu THE DEAD LUST" after the really scary stuff happened...

In April 2006...I was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma (Brain Cancer)...

Luckily I had shot the film prior in 2004...with

some pickups in 2005 and 2006. I was all ready to start post...

Then dizzy spells started...I couldn't think straight... I was tired all the time...started to get queezy...couldn't turn my head to the left... which eventually leads to an ambulance ride to OHSU Hospital E.R. in Portland, Oregon where after HOURS they finally figured out that I had a Brain Tumor!

Holy Crap!

"Ekimmu THE DEAD LUST" would never see the light of day...I would never be a Dad... and my beyond wonderful wife would be without her best friend... I knew at that moment that I just couldn't die from this, at least not then anyway... I had to put the "War Paint"on, I needed to fight...I had too many reasons to be here... It's the scariest thing I've ever experienced...so far...

I got really scared when people started to leave me...I thought I was gonna melt into the ground and dissolve into dust...I mean just LOSE IT all...and this film sat on a shelf for 3 years while I was at WAR with Cancer...teasing me...taunting me... I actually thought about burning it, just deystoying it for good, I was sick of knowing it was just sitting there, unfinished...

It was like the worst "Edgar Allan Poe" story ever...

It literally haunted my dreams when I was going through "Chemo" (and Beyond). All the new drugs I was on made me very depressed and hyper-emotional... I'm sure anytime your skull is opened you have a great risk of TBI...not to mention Radiation and "Chemo" combined does a number on a person...I was Broken...

In April 2010...I hit a very important milestone...4 years past Diagnosis!!!...that's a really good thing...

I felt like I could get back to work...so I made a trailer on the Eve of 2010...

And now this little horror film has a real home online...www.ekimmuthedeadlust.com... ...after all this I am not worried, I know that soon..."People will actually see this"!!!

It's 2012...I'm still in recovery (6 Months from Remission)...and I can see only good things ahead of me now... in a lot of ways I'm still at WAR...not with Cancer so much... but the after-effects of the "treatments"...losing my ability to make a child with my wife the "natural" way was the biggest mind screw of all time...(Yes Cancer took even that)... ...but that's why I gotta make this thing good...really good...you know? Like b'dass!!! I've decided...I'm doin' it..."there is no spoon"!

I hope that this film ends up being a Smash Hit! For all of US!

BOOM!!!!

...maybe that's Dreaming BIG...but hey...that's the A-B-C's of Me Baby!

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped me to do this! ...and to anyone who is a fan of "THE DEAD LUST"!

Andy :)

Andy Koontz's "Ekimmu THE DEAD LUST" Official Trailer

       

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